摘要 |
<p>A tray to accommodate sharp surgical instruments or for their safe passing during surgical procedures, said tray incorporating a narrow, elongated, parallel-sided, medially-located instrument channel raised above a supporting surface on peripheral flanges and enclosed by raked side and end walls which act to deflect a deposited instrument into said channel; said peripheral flanges terminating at a finger well which medially transects said instrument channel, extends transversely across more or less the full width of said tray and is of an axial width to comfortably accommodate the fingers of a user grasping a surgical instrument lying in said instrument channel; the lower surface of said finger well abutting the supporting surface and acting to stabilise the position of said tray; an outwardly extending, more or less horizontal flange being provided passing fully around the upper edge of said tray to stiffen said tray and facilitate grasping of it.</p> |